If you don’t know Knuth then you should: Donald E. Knuth (B.S. and M.S., Case Institute of Technology 1960; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology 1963) is Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University, where he supervised the Ph.D. dissertations of 28 students since becoming a professor in 1968. He is the author of numerous books, including three widely translated volumes (so far) of The Art of Computer Programming, recently augmented by a new hardback released as Volume 4A, five volumes of Computers & Typesetting, eight volumes of collected papers and a non-technical book entitled 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated.